Great Transformation: The Political And Economic Origins Of Our Time

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One of today's most original thinkers turns our view of the world upside down . . . Life can be baffling and chaotic, and sometimes it's hard to make sense of it all. The answer, explains groundbreaking thinker Steven Levitt, lies in economics. Not ordinary economics, but freakonomics. It is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, s

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When Joe Bennett bought a five-pack of 'Made in China' underpants in his local New Zealand hypermarket for $8.59, he wondered who on earth could be making any money, let alone profit, from the exchange. How many processes and middlemen are involved? Where and how are the pants made? And who decides on the absorbent qualities of the gusset? Where Underpants Come From tells you all you need to know

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A dozen times every day, individuals and organisations use economic claims to support social and political points of view. Those on the left tend to distrust economists, seeing them as friends of the right. There is something to this skepticism, since professional economists are almost all keen supporters of the free market. Yet while factions on the right naturally embrace economists, they also t

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The Myth of the Great Depression in no way suggests that the Depression of the early 1930s did not occur. It was a time of huge increases in unemployment, bankruptcies, and social disruption. Yet health improved and, after a sharp rise in 1930, suicides rates declined. The word 'Myth' in the title refers to the traditional way the story has been told, focusing almost exclusively on the worst momen

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The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. InThe Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have establishe

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Addressing economics, fascism, history, socialism and the Holocaust, Hayek unwraps the trappings of socialist ideology. The Road to Serfdomremains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought.

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'Breathtaking . . . an exciting and important book . . . Landes shows an amazing breadth of scholarship . . . he has a robust theory, which he expands with pleasant irony and an eye for suspense . . . This is a book which takes Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations as its text and unashamedly bangs the drum for the liberal ideals of freedom, hard work and open markets . . . A formidable work containing m